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They'll never become 'X', except internally. They'll always be known as "the site formerly known as Twitter". Just like Prince.
It will take. We once called KFC "Kentucky Fried Chicken."
> This wasn’t so much of a problem when Kentucky Fried Chicken became KFC—lots of us already called it that
https://slate.com/business/2004/05/what-does-kfc-stand-for-n...
Twitter has always been Twitter
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X.com probably makes sense in the assumption that he turns Twitter into a WeChat clone as kinda 'everything app' which would obviously fail. But as 'everything app' X is kinda a strong brand IMO.
Not as strong as i.com.
It's crazy to me that they didn't buy i.com in the early days.
But of a tangent, but: every time I see a link to an X post, I’m finding it increasingly weird that the Twitter -> X rename happened with a big splash some time ago now, but the actual x.com domain is still redirecting to twitter.com rather than the other way around.
a.org is an odd one. It's just an HTML form input that doesn't post anywhere, but it became a curious rabbit hole on r/hacking a few months ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/16yrggi/aorg/
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I personally like brand names that _look_ like they could be words, but aren't like Spotify, Twitter, Monzo, Reddit, Google etc. Believe they need to be short and easy to Google even if you don't know how to spell them (not saying the above brand names are perfect). Find it annoying hearing Xero having to be spelt out on the radio to stop people going to zero.com. Not particularly a fan of combining two English words…
Twitter is a word in itself, though, both a verb and a noun [0]. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter
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Elon is special in a lot of ways. Twitter had one of the strongest brands. Not in social media, not in technology, just one of the strongest brands period . Do people realize how rare and difficult that is to do? That little blue bird was everywhere. Elon just gave it up. Flushed it away. Kind of like those advertising contracts.
It is indeed his biggest mismanagement, but it’s a serious competition. At least it broke the image of ‘CEOs must be intelligent’, that was wide spread in certain circles.
Maybe he did it for the lol's, or to own his political opponents, or maybe it was just a mistake he locked himself into. All of which sound just like him.
Rockets don't fly and electric cars don't drive if they aren't built right, which puts a floor on the IQ of the man who is that involved and hands-on with it. Being early in a major startup is a big deal, never mind a whole string of them.
He may or may not be weird or an asshole but he sure ain't stupid.
EDIT: I've been on the fence about this guy ever since I read his most recent biography, but it's really hilarious how saying something even remotely positive about him brings out an crowd who is enraged at his very being and the notion that such a thing as competence might exist.